Crate for wheelbarrows.



PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

M. V. GARVER. CRATE FOR WHEELBARROWS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30, 1905.

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MARTIN V. GARVER, OF BRYAN, OHIO.

CRATE FOR WHEELBARROWS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed December 30, 1905. Serial Nov 293,938.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN V. GARVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bryan, in the county of Williams and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packages for Wheelbarrows; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

In packing and shipping wheelbarrows in knockdown form it has been found difficult to arrange the parts compactly and to so secure them in place that the parts will not become separated. More especially is this true in wheelbarrow-packages made up for export and for transportation on shipboard.

My invention relates to and its object is to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient crate or package by the use of which the difliculties above indicated may be fully overcome and by means of which the parts of a number of wheelbarrows may be securely packed in small compass.

My crate or package is designed more particularly for that class of wheelbarrows in which the frame consists for the most part of a single piece of gas-pipe bent approximately into U shape, the extremities being inclined apart and being bent upwardly to form handles for the barrow, the Wheel of the barrow being journaled between the side bars thus formed at the end opposite the handles.

I accomplish the objects above indicated by the devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and shown and illus trated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of my device, and Fig. 2 a top plan view of the same.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both views.

In the drawings, 1 is the top; 2, the bottom; 3, the rear end; 4, the front end, and 5 5 the sides of a box or crate. It will be seen from the drawings that the front and back of the box are parallel, that the top and bottom of the box are likewise parallel, and that the sides converge inwardly toward the back of the box. The top and bottom of the box consist of a series of narrow boards 6 7, disposed crosswise of the box. The front end and rear end boards of both the top and bottom project laterally at each end and beyond the body of the box, as at 8, and near their outer ends are bored to receive bolt-rods 9, which connect the projecting ends of the front end boards and the projecting ends of the rear end boards.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my package or crate made up for half a dozen wheelbarrows, it being understood that the trays are nested and the wheels secured together and that these constitute separate packages. My package or crate is assembled as follows: The box being formed as above described and the top being off, one of the U-shaped pieces 10, forming the side bars and handles, is placed with its converging portion over the narrow end of the box, resting upon the bottom projecting pieces 8. The two ends of this handle-piece are then pulled forward as far as possible so that the two side bars of the wheelbarrow-frame are caused to closely embrace the tapering sides of the box. Now another handle is in the same manner placed upon the first handle and then another and another until the top bars are flush with the top of the box. Now the bolts, ends, legs, braces, and the other smaller parts of the barrows, except four brace-rods 9, (which form part of the wheelbarrowframes,) are placed in the box in compact order. The cover is now nailed or screwed to the top of the box, and the four brace-rods are passed through the holes in the projecting end pieces of the top and bottom and there secured by nuts upon the threaded ends of the rods. It will be understood that the inner sides of the side bars press against the outer tapering sides of the box and that the rods 9 engage the outer sides of the side bars and that thus the handle-bars are rigidly secured upon the case which contains the smaller parts and are there held against vertical, lateral, or longitudinal movement.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

A wheelbarrow-carrier comprising a box to contain the smaller wheelbarrow parts and adapted to engage on its outer side a series of In testimony whereof I affix my signature converigling handle-bars, latelrial projections in presence of two Witnesses.

upon t e top and bottom of t e box adapte to prevent the movement of the handle-bars, MARTIN GARVER' and rods which connect the extremities of Witnesses:

the lateral projections and which are adapted GRANT MASTERS,

to engage the outer sides of such handle-bars. R. L. STARR. 

